Of all the places that are no longer a part of the scene, what do you miss the most? I'm talking about places you frequented.

Here's mine....

I spent many a Saturday matinee there, not to mention going at other times, between 1958 and 1965, when it became a porno house. It was only a block and a half from our house, and my mother and her sibs grew up at the Dreamland, too.

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If it's true what they say, that GOD created us in His image, then why should we not love creating, and why should we not continue to do so, as carefully and ethically as we can, on whatever scale we're capable of?

The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.

If it's true what they say, that GOD created us in His image, then why should we not love creating, and why should we not continue to do so, as carefully and ethically as we can, on whatever scale we're capable of?

The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.

I grew up as a military brat in Germany. Pretty much most of the US Army installations we used to frequent are long gone. I miss shopping at the commissary, renting tapes at the video store, picking up the latest Fangoria issue at the book store, or having hot breakfast served at the snack bar/canteen.

When I was a little girl, my mom would somtimes take me to WOOLWORTH'S. It was a 5 & dime store (precurser to today's Dollar Stores). Anyway, the place had a small eatery in the middle of the store. It had long counters with the old fashioned round, stool-like seats. As a treat, I remember my mom would order vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup for the two of us. Our little outing was very special to me ... something only the two of us shared. The store is long gone and my Mom has been gone almost 15 years now. But the memory of the place still makes me ... smile.

There was an island on Cedar Creek Lake where you could find some AMAZING Indian artifacts falling right out of the vertical, 10 foot high cut banks - it was a killer site high water or low. Then in 1998 they decided to put a couple of million dollar homes on the island, and bulkheaded all the way around to stop erosion - and, to add insult to injury, they dredged an enormous ditch in front of the bulkhead to provide backfill. Now you can't find anything there.

Now as far as commercial establishments, I miss Ryan's Steakhouse here in Greenville, and Ninja's Japanese Grill. Both excellent restaurants that closed up way too soon.

Similar to Indy's post, there was this small lake in Mississippi called Tweaky Park, It was open to the public before the gov't took over it for Seal Training.

Back in the city, there was the local pharmacy called K&B's, which was 10x better than Wrong- I mean Rite-Aid. K&B's was always fully stocked with stuff we needed, but disappeared when Wrong-Aid took over it. Scumbag Wrong-Aid!

Also, there was a grocery store that was ran buy a local called...Schwagman's (don't even know if it is right) that had a single phone in the middle of the building but was shut down to do some corruption stuff. I remember it for having 4 different color toy tractors, I had 3 of them!

Maximes in Wigan. They'd been having rock nights there for over 20 years. Nothing but 70s and 80s classic rock, late 80s and early 90s glam and AOR. They stopped running it last year, so it's just a dance/techno club for skinheaded morons to take drugs at now. No more playing air guitar on the smoke filled dance floor next to women in lingerie and blokes with hair down to their feet. Got to see Magnum and Crashdiet there too. There was and now there is, nowhere like it...